Synopsis Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress-Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.
About the Author:
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and a prominent member of the Huxley family. Brave New World is his most famous novel , Aldous has been writing his whole life and his brothers suicide inspired him to write more and more. Aldous got married to Julia Arnold which was his first wife. He lived in Los Angeles from 1937 untill his death.
Character list:
John - The son of the Director and Linda, John is the only major character to have grown up outside of the World State. The consummate outsider, he has spent his life alienated from his village on the New Mexico Savage Reservation, and he finds himself similarly unable to fit in to World State society.
Bernard Marx - An Alpha male who fails to fit in because of his inferior physical stature. He holds unorthodox beliefs about sexual relationships, sports, and community events.
Henry Foster - One of Lenina’s many lovers, he is a perfectly conventional Alpha male, casually discussing Lenina’s body with his coworkers.
Linda - John’s mother, and a Beta. While visiting the New Mexico Savage Reservation, she became pregnant with the Director’s son. During a storm, she got lost, suffered a head injury and was left behind.
Lenina Crowne - A vaccination worker at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. She is an object of desire for a number of major and minor characters, including Bernard Marx and John.
Settings -
2540 A.D.; London, England and New Mexico, U.S
5 facts -
- Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's 5th book and has been multiple screen plays.
- Brave New World is considered as a 'negative utopia'.
- Aldous Huxley came up with the idea of Brave New World by thinking about providing the public with a frightening version of the future.
- Brave New World's title derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's TheTempest
'O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.'
- Brave New World was listed as number 87 in BBC' s survey 'The Big Read'.
For this task I was asked to write a story, making up a scene in Brave New World.
1) What was your inicial reaction when you found out children in past times were born?
- I was shocked and quite amused. I never knew that children before ford had mothers and fathers...
2) What is your feelings toward Ford?
- Ford is the most amazing person, Ford is so smart and I cant imagine life without Ford.
3) Who is Ford?
- Ford is the man that created the assemble line. Ford is god in our eyes.
4) Its been said that you are the desire for Bernard Marx and John, along with many other people in the book. How do you feel about this?
- I feel very good about it because it makes me feel wanted and respected. Yeah i like it quite a bit.
5) If you were to have a mother and a father. How do you picture them?
- I picture a loving family, I picture an older brother and a younger brother. I know that it is wrong for me to think of this, but I have always wanted a family.
Scarlet pimpernel short creative story -
Its the final cold day of these miserable bastards life, and i have the honour to end it.
The cold winter air is making the smell of blood on the wood beneath my toes seem worse. Its Ten past Ten. As the drawbridge falls down my heart beats faster than fast. The cart pulls up infront on me. I step down from the platform and look into the horse and cart. Men and Women with tears in their eyes. The wood is smooth and warm while i run my fingers across it. Grabbing one of the skinny wrists of one of the Women I pull her out of the cart. She cries for help, yet no one cares about her. Loud cheers of excitement fill the air. As i haul the girl up to Madame La Guillotine, the cheers become louder. I through her onto the guillotine and pull the cord, the sound is deafening. I look up and see people raise there glasses and smash them together. The smell of blood is overpowered by the smell of beer.
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Brave New World - By Aldous Huxley
Synopsis
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress-Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.
About the Author:
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and a prominent member of the Huxley family. Brave New World is his most famous novel , Aldous has been writing his whole life and his brothers suicide inspired him to write more and more. Aldous got married to Julia Arnold which was his first wife. He lived in Los Angeles from 1937 untill his death.
Character list:
John -The son of the Director and Linda, John is the only major character to have grown up outside of the World State. The consummate outsider, he has spent his life alienated from his village on the New Mexico Savage Reservation, and he finds himself similarly unable to fit in to World State society.
Bernard Marx -
An Alpha male who fails to fit in because of his inferior physical stature. He holds unorthodox beliefs about sexual relationships, sports, and community events.
Henry Foster -
One of Lenina’s many lovers, he is a perfectly conventional Alpha male, casually discussing Lenina’s body with his coworkers.
Linda -
John’s mother, and a Beta. While visiting the New Mexico Savage Reservation, she became pregnant with the Director’s son. During a storm, she got lost, suffered a head injury and was left behind.
Lenina Crowne -
A vaccination worker at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. She is an object of desire for a number of major and minor characters, including Bernard Marx and John.
Settings -
2540 A.D.; London, England and New Mexico, U.S
5 facts -
- Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's 5th book and has been multiple screen plays.
- Brave New World is considered as a 'negative utopia'.
- Aldous Huxley came up with the idea of Brave New World by thinking about providing the public with a frightening version of the future.
- Brave New World's title derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest
- Brave New World was listed as number 87 in BBC' s survey 'The Big Read'.
For this task I was asked to write a story, making up a scene in Brave New World.
5 questions with Lenina Crowne.
1) What was your inicial reaction when you found out children in past times were born?
- I was shocked and quite amused. I never knew that children before ford had mothers and fathers...
2) What is your feelings toward Ford?
- Ford is the most amazing person, Ford is so smart and I cant imagine life without Ford.
3) Who is Ford?
- Ford is the man that created the assemble line. Ford is god in our eyes.
4) Its been said that you are the desire for Bernard Marx and John, along with many other people in the book. How do you feel about this?
- I feel very good about it because it makes me feel wanted and respected. Yeah i like it quite a bit.
5) If you were to have a mother and a father. How do you picture them?
- I picture a loving family, I picture an older brother and a younger brother. I know that it is wrong for me to think of this, but I have always wanted a family.
Scarlet pimpernel short creative story -
Its the final cold day of these miserable bastards life, and i have the honour to end it.
The cold winter air is making the smell of blood on the wood beneath my toes seem worse. Its Ten past Ten. As the drawbridge falls down my heart beats faster than fast. The cart pulls up infront on me. I step down from the platform and look into the horse and cart. Men and Women with tears in their eyes. The wood is smooth and warm while i run my fingers across it. Grabbing one of the skinny wrists of one of the Women I pull her out of the cart. She cries for help, yet no one cares about her. Loud cheers of excitement fill the air. As i haul the girl up to Madame La Guillotine, the cheers become louder. I through her onto the guillotine and pull the cord, the sound is deafening. I look up and see people raise there glasses and smash them together. The smell of blood is overpowered by the smell of beer.